Pactolos
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Paktolos Sart Çayı |
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 Paktolos, today's name Sart Çayı |
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| location | Turkey | |
| River system | Gediz | |
| Drain over | Gediz → Gulf of Izmir | |
| source | Boz Dağı, Boz Dağları , Turkey | |
| muzzle | At Salihli ( Sardis ) coordinates: 38 ° 31 '19 " N , 28 ° 2' 48" E 38 ° 31 '19 " N , 28 ° 2' 48" E |
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| Mouth height |
73 m
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| Medium-sized cities | Salihli | |
| Small towns | Sardis | |
| Today's name Sart Çayı | ||
The Paktolos ( Greek Πακτωλός, today's Turkish name Sart Çayı ) is the ancient name of a river near the Aegean coast of Turkey . It is a tributary of the Hermos (Gediz in Turkish) in western Asia Minor . It rises at Boz Dağı, the ancient Tmolos, and flows into the Gediz at Salihli.
In ancient times the river was also called Chrysorrhoas ( Greek Χρυσορρόας , the gold leader ).
Greek mythology
In Greek mythology , Paktolus is a river god; how many river gods he is a son of Oceanus (ancient Greek Ὀκεανός, the ocean) and Tethys (old Greek Τηθύς). The river allegedly carried gold dust with it, which is widely regarded as a symbol of the wealth of the city of Sardis , but according to myth it is said to come from the fact that Midas bathed in the Pactolus to give the gift that everything he touched turned into gold, to wash off.
Poetry
Friedrich Hölderlin mentions the river in his poem Der Neckar .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strabon , Geographika 13,4,5
- ↑ (Pseudo-) Plutarch , De fluviis 7.1; Hyginus , Fabulae 191
- ↑ Herodotus 5.101
- ↑ Ovid , Metamorphoses 11, 85-145; Hyginus, Fabulae 191
- ↑ Friedrich Hölderlin: The Neckar in the Gutenberg-DE project ( archive version )
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Paktolos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Sp. 1255-1255 ( digitized version ).